Dealing with the death of an employee will be the most difficult task a manager will ever face. There are no numbers, no dollars, no memos, none of the day to day trappings of business. It is all about human relations.

This death affects the employee’s co-workers, direct reports and managers. It will affect the customers he or she had contact with, the vendors, even the delivery guy from Fed Ex. This death will ripple outward in the community that is the business and dealing with the ramifications will be important.

For more on this topic, please see my article on Helium.com.